Faith and Vision: Twenty-Five Years of Christians in the Visual Arts
edited by Cameron Anderson and Sandra Bowden
Founded in 1979, Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) was born as a response to the absence of a tangible Christian community within the contemporary American art world. As it matured, CIVA grew to become a place of aesthetic stimulation and spiritual encouragement both to its members and to the several thousand artists and institutions in its formal network. This book is the record of a generation or two of Christians who heeded the call to make art and, in doing so, accepted its manifold challenges, tensions, and affirmations. The hope of the many contributors to this book is that it will serve as a signpost encouragement to a rising cohort of artists who follow. Between its covers, this book features more than 200 images that showcase the work of CIVA's most accomplished artists and highlight the quality and breadth of its many traveling exhibitions, conferences, directories, and publications.
The Art of Sandra Bowden
edited by James Romaine
Bruce Herman says in the foreword to The Art of Sandra Bowden, "Simply put, Sandra Bowden is a phenomenon. Though she has not, to my knowledge, held a formal teaching post at a college or university, she has infected countless people with a love of art and art discourse." The infection has reason to spread further with Bowden's new book, an impressive compilation of artwork produced over the last forty years. In the "Books" section, Terrance E. Dempsey travels through her collection of illuminated manuscripts and book covers, observing that "Sandra Bowden is one such artist whose entire artistic oeuvre refers, directly or indirectly, to manuscripts, and she approaches her art as a practicing Christian. Her work, however, is not based on easy nostalgia or sentiment. Bowden reveals her keen understanding of the major artists of the twentieth century and she harkens back to the work of Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance artists." Other sections of the book include Language, Archaeological Findings, Crucifixions, and Materials."